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# Copyright (C) 2013 Tim Marston <tim@edm.am>
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# This file is part of stdhome (hereafter referred to as "this program").
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# See http://ed.am/dev/stdhome for more information.
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# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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import os, stat, errno
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def canonicalise_path( path ):
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"""Return the canonicalised form of a path. That is, the fully-qualified
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version of the supplied path, with ~ expanded to the user's home directory.
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The returned path is guaranteed to always begin and end with a '/'.
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path = '/' + os.path.expanduser( path ).strip( '/' )
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return path if path == '/' else path + '/'
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# Class to provide the switch functionality that C/C++ programmers are so used
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# to but which is missing in python. For more information, see
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# http://code.activestate.com/recipes/410692-readable-switch-construction-without-lambdas-or-di/
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class switch( object ):
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def __init__( self, value ):
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"""Return the match method once, then stop
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def match( self, *args ):
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"""Indicate whether or not to enter a case suite
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if self.fall or not args:
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elif self.value in args: